You deal with the issue on its merits and most reasonable people will be satisfied with that if you deal with it effectively. Dismissing it as an issue raised to stoke a race war should be no part of… (View Post)

They need Mandelson to resign for some other reason - a different job, a health crisis, baby adoption, anything. (View Post)

The error is that we didn't recognise in 2008 (Russian invasion of Georgia) or 2014 (First Russian invasion of Ukraine) that the situation had changed. (View Post)

I think we are again seeing the consequences of an absence of leadership. (View Post)

I think that organisationally there's been quite a lot of work to prepare for a NATO either without the US, or with a reluctant US. And there are also structures that have been created in parall… (View Post)